On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:30:36 +0200 Thomas Roessler <[email protected]> wrote:
> - What are the benefits of using one over the other in the cases > where they overlap? One of the key FOAF+SSL benefits over OpenID is its RESTfulness. I can request a FOAF+SSL-secured resource using curl or wget. A typical OpenID exchange requires various redirections and form-filling, so cannot easily be achieved using command-line tools like this. This makes FOAF+SSL a more suitable authentication system for use-cases where requests will be made by software agents rather than people - e.g. securing a SPARQL endpoint or an API endpoint. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:[email protected]> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
